Art: The Sculptor & Noah Webster

To celebrate the 183rd birthday of Lexicographer Noah Webster, 500
citizens of the well-heeled, suburban town of West Hartford, Conn,
tricked themselves out in costumes and gathered before their Town Hall.
For West Hartford's most famous native son is Noah Webster.

Focus of this celebration was a huge 13-foot, beetle-browed, unfinished
marble statue of Lexicographer Webster which stared glumly down at them
through a surrounding clutter of scaffolding. The